Claspy, Everett. The Negro in Southwestern Michigan: Negroes in the North in a Rural Environment. Dowagiac, Michigan: Claspy, 1967. Call #: oE185.93.M5C55.
Cox, Anna-Lisa. "A Pocket of Freedom: Blacks in Covert, Michigan, in the Nineteenth Century." Michigan Historical Review 21:1 (Spring 1995). Call #: oF561.M54.
DeVries, James E. Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town. The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan 1900-1915. Chicago: University of Illinois, 1984. Call #: oF574.M7D48 1984. Academic orientation, but includes several detailed “family reconstruction” in an appendix.
Directory of Negro Businesses, Professions and Churches for Detroit and Environs. Detroit: Associates Advertisers’ Service, [1952]. Call #: Microfiche 1554.
Our Untold Stories: a Collection of Family History Narratives. Detroit: Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society, 2001.
Stewart, Roma Jones. “The Migration of a Free People. Cass County’s Black Settlers from North Carolina.” Michigan History 71:1 (January/February 1987). Call #: F901.005 (See also same author under North Carolina.)
Warren, Francis H. Michigan Manual of Freedmen’s Progress. Detroit, 1915. Call #: H583901.573. Contains biographical information.